New York, New York

Finally made it to New York last night, after roughly 24 hours in transit - left early Sunday Canberra time, got here about 7 pm Sunday New York time, feeling really tired.  But not enough to go for a walk round Times Square to grab some food and do a bit of the tourist thing - but not interested in going for some drinks with my work colleagues who’d been here a day longer than me.

Today, we worked hard.  Statue of Liberty, Central Park, some lunch at a deli.  However thats all the sightseeing we get, the rest of the week is work, work,work.  Must say the Statue of Liberty up close is very impressive - its one of those icons that just has a special feeling about it.  In Australia, going to Uluru did the same for me … just a really special place.

A few thoughts on New York:

• its hot
• skyscrapers everywhere
• you notice the racial diversity much more than in Australia
• you should see the serving sizes of the food you get - massive (probably has a lot to do with the next point)
• plenty of fat people
• everyone walking around talking into their mobile phone
• fascinating how you can go a block or two and go from very upmarket shopping to seedy porn shops and the like
• signs saying “no weapons to be taken to …..”  - shit, I had to dump my trusty 12 gauge.
• I definitely want to come back and see more of it.

Funniest thing seen today - two young girls sitting a few rows in front of us on the Statue of Liberty ferry.  First noticed them wearing short croptops and lowish hanging jeans, in particular the rolls hanging out between the two items of clothing (never an attractive sight), but when they sat down, we got a view of several inches of buttcrack, then  couple of inches of undies then finally got to the top of the jeans.